In Defense of the Corporation
{{short description|1975 nonfiction book by Robert Hessen}}
In Defense of the Corporation is a nonfiction book by the business historian Robert Hessen. It was published by the Hoover Institution Press in 1979. In the book, Hessen defends the corporation as a legitimate institution against criticisms leveled by Ralph Nader and Mark J. Green in their co-written books Corporate Power in America (1973) and Taming the Giant Corporation (1976).
Reviews
Academic journals reviewing In Defense of the Corporation include the Academy of Management Review,{{cite journal |first=Edwin A. |last=Locke |author-link=Edwin Locke |title=Review |journal=Academy of Management Review |volume=4 |issue=3 |date=July 1979 |pages=475–477 |jstor=257210}} American Business Law Journal,{{cite journal |first=Frederick G. Jr |last=Kempin |title=Book Reviews: In Defense of the Corporation |journal=American Business Law Journal |volume=18 |issue=1 |date=Spring 1980 |pages=123–129 |doi=10.1111/j.1744-1714.1980.tb00034.x |url=https://heinonline.org/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/ambuslj18§ion=17|url-access=subscription }} The Bell Journal of Economics,{{cite journal |first=Lee E. |last=Preston |title=Review: Vogel's Lobbying the Corporation, Winter's Government and the Corporation, and Hessen's In Defense of the Corporation |journal=The Bell Journal of Economics |volume=10 |issue=2 |date=Autumn 1979 |pages=733–736 |doi=10.2307/3003366 |jstor=3003366}} Business History Review,{{cite journal |first=Donald L. |last=Kemmerer |title=Review |journal=Business History Review |volume=53 |issue=3 |date=Autumn 1979 |pages=395–396 |doi=10.2307/3114094 |jstor=3114094|s2cid=154252060 }} Columbia Law Review,{{cite journal |first=Walter |last=Werner |title=Book Review |date=March 1979 |volume=79 |issue=2 |pages=401–403 |journal=Columbia Law Review |jstor=1121936}} Journal of Economic Literature,{{cite journal |first=John C. |last=Goodman |author-link=John C. Goodman |title=[Review of In Defense of the Corporation] |journal=Journal of Economic Literature |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=155–156 |date=March 1980 |jstor=2723920}} Modern Age,{{cite journal |title=The Market Society |last=Peterson |first=William H. |journal=Modern Age |volume=24 |issue=2 |date=Spring 1980 |pages=206–207 |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/710b7262c3a30763508389a1a0f16d57/1}} Public Choice,{{cite journal |first=Barry D. |last=Baysinger |title=Review |journal=Public Choice |volume=36 |issue=1 |date=1981 |pages=201–204 |jstor=30023432}} Southern Economic Journal,{{cite journal |first=Richard D. |last=Auster |title=[Review of In Defense of the Corporation] |journal=Southern Economic Journal |volume=46 |issue=4 |date=April 1980 |pages=1250–1251 |jstor=1057263}} the UMKC Law Review,{{cite journal |first=Robert C. |last=Downs |title=Book Review: Hessen: In Defense of the Corporation |journal=UMKC Law Review |volume=48 |issue=3 |date=Spring 1980 |pages=502–505 |url=https://heinonline.org/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/umkc48§ion=32}} and the University of Miami Law Review.{{cite journal |first=Henry G. |last=Manne |author-link=Henry Manne |title=Book Review: Hessen: In Defense of the Corporation |journal=University of Miami Law Review |volume=33 |issue=5 |date=September 1979 |pages=1649–1655 |url=https://repository.law.miami.edu/umlr/vol33/iss5/13}} The book was also reviewed in Barron's,{{cite news |title=Barron's on Books |last=Kelley |first=David |newspaper=Barron's |volume=59 |issue=17 |date=April 23, 1979 |page=55 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/350673630|id={{ProQuest|350673630}} }} Human Events,{{cite news |title=In Defense Of the Corporation (Book Review) |newspaper=Human Events |volume=39 |issue=40 |date=October 6, 1979 |page=10 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1310009374|id={{ProQuest|1310009374}} }} The New York Times,{{cite news |first=Tom |last=Goldstein |title=Corporations and the State |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 14, 1979 |page=D4 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/13/archives/business-and-the-law-corporations-and-the-state-plan-to-list.html}} Reason,{{cite magazine |first=D. T. |last=Armentano |title=Books: In Defense of the Corporation |magazine=Reason |date=July 1979 |pages=45–46 |url=https://reason.com/1979/07/01/in-defense-of-the-corporation/}} and Worldview.{{cite magazine |title=Briefly Noted |magazine=Worldview |volume=22 |issue=7–8 |date=July–August 1979 |page=56 |url=https://carnegiecouncil-media.storage.googleapis.com/files/v22_i007-008_a020.pdf}}
References
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External links
- {{Internet Archive|id=indefenseofcorpo0000hess|name=In Defense of the Corporation}}
Category:1979 non-fiction books
Category:Books about capitalism